As highway death statistics in Minnesota continue to stay steady they still remain high for alcohol related crashes. The safest way to prevent this is to simply not drink and drive. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has provided a number of safety tips that…
Did you know that New Year’s is the deadliest day for pedestrians? You can probably guess why. It is usually a combination of drunk drivers and drunk walkers. “Alcohol impairs your physical ability to walk and to drive,” said Dr. Thomas Esposito at Loyola University…
This year has been a good one. I did take a couple of months off from writing, but am back. There were a couple of trials that were taking up a lot of my time. We thank everyone, who took the time to read any…
On her way out, Rep. Michele Bachmann has for the most part been pretty silent. I have notice a couple of tweets about getting around the district, which she seemed to ignore for much of her 8 years. She seemed more interested in speeches around…
At times one of the defenses we will see in abuse cases is the confidentiality of penance, which is that things were said to other members of the clergy, but they are protected because they were as part of the sacrament of penance. There would…
There is no doubt that Tom Young, Jon Lewis, and Tom D’Amore, from here at the Legal Examiner, will be cheering on their local teams in the first college playoffs.. Locally , we will be watching a New Years Day bowl for the Gophers. In…
Due to having divorced parents I had the opportunity growing up seeing Christmas arrive in two separate parts of the country. With my Mom, Christmas in Rhode Island was lobster dinner at my God Mothers, midnight mass and opening of the first presents sometime around…
The St Cloud Dioceses has had two disclosures of list. I have looked at each of those as they came out: New List Of 17 From The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Has 4 That Were In Diocese of St Cloud Diocese of St…
It happens a couple of times a week. We will sit down with a potential new client and they will tell us their story. Then they will get to the part about how the adjuster keeps calling them every couple of days. We will…
This past couple of days has seen record temperatures, snow, and rain. All of this has combined to make the roads wet and to insure that with dropping temperatures there will be ice. I sometimes think it would be a lot safer if the weather…